Resumen de Has the quality of working life improved in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2005?

Nathalie Greenan, Ekaterina Kalugina, Emmanuelle Walkowiak

• This article provides a mapping of quality of working life and measures its evolution between 1995 and 2005 with European Working Conditions Surveys. Using multilevel modelling, we assess the sensitivity of observed trends to �composition effects� and �country effects�. Results suggest a decreasing trend in the quality of working life: physical strain has increased, whereas work has become more intense and less complex. In Germany and Italy, all indicators have worsened, whereas other EU-15 countries have more mixed results.